Killer post indeed. You should write a book on this topic Marshall. - Mike Reynolds

great post! - Pico Seno

A good read :) - AJ Batac

Thanks for this. especially the mLoovi info. I'm trying to create one out of Japanese news site RSS feeds. Don't know why, but couldn't get netvibes to recognize the mLoovi generated link to their Japanese translation of my own site's RSS feed. Regardless, I love the idea. I've been looking for something like this like, forever. Probably translations of feeds is too ambitious to start, so I'll think of something I've wanted to find blogs about in English and try this out. Later. After a break. (whew) - Katie Ratcliffe from FriendFeed MT Plugin

Marshall -- this is brilliant stuff. In response to your first commenter, I've tried to automate most of this process using Yahoo! Pipes. With two notable exceptions this is possible -- there's no ranking by popularity (yet) and there's no human editorial intervention (I don't think I can imagine a way to automate that!) However, the automation speeds the process up somewhat, which means that a researcher could pull <em>multiple</em> searches in the period that it would have taken them to pull one manually. That <em>may</em> have some benefit. Link here for the blog post/explanation/link to Pipe: http://icanhaz.com/marshal... - Mat Morrison from FriendFeed MT Plugin

Although this may be tricky for many I find it very useful. I am not new to feeds but the "workflow" here is really interesting. I mean I had used some of these methods separately but organized this way look like a wonderful tool to get the hottest posts. Thanks for sharing this. - Carlos Lorenzo from FriendFeed MT Plugin

Marshall, This is really good. I was getting great results with xfruits and regator, but now with this method, I am aware of more outlets per topic than before. Thank you for this. - Bryan R. Adams from FriendFeed MT Plugin

that's a hot tool! - Jim Gray

Marshall, Thank you thank you for this awesome tutorial! I'd built something like this late last year using feeds for web search. The result was a Netvibes 'listening post' for my former employer: http://www.netvibes.com/namac-l... For those others coming to this post, I was also inspired by Marshall's post: http://marshallk.com/how-to-... Thanks again for the help and keep the mashups coming! - Morgan Sully from FriendFeed MT Plugin

That was geeky-cool! - Martha